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“#Deleted Scenes & More \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"America:<\/p>\n

America: The Motion Picture<\/em><\/strong> is a blockbuster animated comedy available on Netflix now. The raucously hilarious patriotic satire features a completely ridiculous and nonsensical account of the American Revolutionary War, where George Washington, Sam Adams, Thomas Edison, Paul Revere, Geronimo and John Henry team up to take on Benedict Arnold (who just so happ<\/a>ens to be a werewolf) and the British army.<\/p>\n

After America: The Motion Picture<\/em> arrived on Netflix, we talked with director Matt Thompson<\/strong> (Archer<\/em>, Sealab 2021<\/em>) about balancing the ludicrous comedy throughout the movie, some of the best bits, and deleted scenes that were too expensive or too ridiculous. Plus, we found out how that perfect Swordfish<\/em> parody made it into the final cut.<\/span><\/p>\n

I loved America: The Motion Picture<\/em>. This movie is so funny. It\u2019s just nonsensically ridiculous historical satire. It cracked me up the whole way through, so great job.<\/strong>
\nThank you for saying that. We tried to just have absolute much fun as we could, to pack as much comedy as we could, but still trying to keep a sense of heart and a story to go along with it. But more importantly it\u2019s supposed to be a wild ride that you just have to just turn your brain off and let it go.<\/p>\n

Yeah, for sure. Speaking of which, I was actually wondering how you figure out where the line is as far as when something is too ridiculous or doesn\u2019t work in a movie like this where the comedy comes from things being so insane and nonsensical? One of the things that stuck out to me, and I don\u2019t mean this to sound like a nitpick, just so you know, but Martha Dandridge says \u201cHashtag blessed,\u201d at one point, but then a few seconds later, she doesn\u2019t know what a phone is. So I\u2019m just wondering if there are any rules that you establish to keep things from going off the rails?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As far as things going too far, we did several times, and things kept getting cut out of the movie because we\u2019re like, \u201cOkay, that\u2019s too ridiculous. The story\u2019s getting offline.\u201d And that came from continuing to screen the movie about once every three months with [producers Phil] Lord [and Chris] Miller and then saying, \u201cScale this back, you\u2019re getting to nuts, take it easy. Give me more heart, give me more character development and story.\u201d They were integral to try to keep us in line, because there are times where we were even going more insane than when you saw.<\/p>\n

A particular example would be the credits scene in the movie. There\u2019s a small coda scene and that scene represents something that used to be in the movie, and people have to try and figure out what it is. That was a large part of the movie that became too insane. So that\u2019s an example of something that got cut out because we had the streamline it. As far as people saying \u201chashtag blessed\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s a car?\u201d and then there\u2019s a vehicle in the next scene, I was just trying to have fun. I understand that it doesn\u2019t make sense sometimes, but that\u2019s America too. It\u2019s like we\u2019re dumb and smart at the same time, we\u2019re vulgar and thoughtful at the same time. And so I tried not to care so hard about those little small logical things.<\/p>\n

Yeah. I think that\u2019s fair, because if you start trying to figure out the rules and you restrict yourself too much then you start losing sight of the comedy.<\/strong>
\nThere was constant conversation with the writer, Dave Callaham, that was like, \u201cMatt, you realize you\u2019re trying to put logic rules on a movie where a werewolf biting the head off of Abraham Lincoln to start the revolutionary war is one of your more normal things. So, don\u2019t talk to me about rules about what you can and cannot say in an individual scene. All rules are already out the door by the time you get five minutes into the movie. So just hang up and enjoy the ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

For sure. Speaking of Dave Callaham, as I understand it, he wrote this movie roughly 10 years ago and it was originally intended to be a live-action script. How did you get involved and how did the project change once it turned into an animated project?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave did write this 10 years ago to the day that it came out on Netflix on June 30.<\/p>\n

Oh, wow!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the history of the project is Dave was doing something with Lord and Miller, and he wanted them to have a comedy spec, because he\u2019s mostly known as a big budget action movie writer. So he wrote this script on a lark thinking, \u201cI\u2019m constantly writing these things about action movies<\/a>, a group of people band together to fight something.\u201d And he thought, what would be the greatest origin story that he could tell, the origin of this team? And it\u2019s the origin of the team that went to fight the British to establish our freedom. So he started with that and they were reading his spec script, I believe on the set of one of the 21 Jump Street<\/em> movies, I can\u2019t remember which one. When Channing [Tatum] read it, he\u2019s like, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we just do this? Let\u2019s just do this.\u201d And then it quickly became, \u201cYou know what, let\u2019s do it as a cartoon. And we can take that to wherever we want it to go.\u201d I was brought in after Channing, after Lord and Miller, to come in and direct it.
\nSo how did the project change once you came on board? Was there a rewrite of the script since it had been so long since it was written? I\u2019m sure you brought some of your comedic sensibilities from Archer<\/em> and whatnot to the production.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. The script has been rewritten many times between Dave and myself, with Dave always involved in helping making sure we\u2019re still telling the same tale. There are just a lot of things in the original script that we couldn\u2019t do. A lot of people, from the comments that I\u2019ve read online, wanted us to take harder shots at America and stuff like that. I believe that Dave\u2019s original script might have been a bit darker, might\u2019ve been a bit biting, and we wanted to tell a tale more about let\u2019s just have a good time. Let\u2019s just tell some jokes. We do have some stuff to say and it\u2019s important to say it, but we all felt as group that if we get too hard at taking an opinion one way or the other about what\u2019s happening in America today, it becomes a different movie than just, \u201cLet\u2019s have some fun, let\u2019s have Paul Bunyan battle a giant mech Big Ben clock.\u201d So we focus more on the wild ride than on telling a straight-up political satire.<\/p>\n

On that same subject, I was wondering if there was ever any concern about the movie potentially being perceived as too jingoistic. Obviously it\u2019s meant to be satirically patriotic and the founding fathers are portrayed as being these douchebros who are kind of idiots as well, but was there ever any concern that it might feel like too much of a gung-ho American movie at a time when America maybe wasn\u2019t on the best footing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a concern for that. And I\u2019m concerned for people that don\u2019t stick with the movie past 15 or 20 minutes in, because it can feel like that at the front, until we start seeing other people of color come into the movie, other voices besides white males as the movie rolls on. Then you begin to see the point of us trying to say, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it been great if the leader of our founding young nation listened to all voices, listened to people of color, listened to women and learned and grew? Wouldn\u2019t we be in a better place now today if that was true?\u201d That became the thing where we started off as bro fantasy almost, but also hopefully [it becomes about] what those bros learned along the way. And that becomes the point of the movie, all culminating in the final theme where we try to make sure that we hold ourselves accountable for our history and our current path.<\/p>\n

Absolutely. All right, so I wanted to dig into some specific bits in this movie. I have to ask about the hacking bit with George Washington that is a basically shot-for-shot recreation of a sequence from Swordfish<\/em>. How did that come together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was Dave Callaham\u2019s idea, and he fought to keep that all the way, because a lot of people are like, \u201cNobody\u2019s going to get this.\u201d And I\u2019m so happy that that joke is in there for people that realize what it is. For me, that\u2019s what\u2019s known as the worst representation, the silliest representation, of what it means to hack a computer network. Anybody who knows a lot about computers is just like, \u201cOh my God, have you seen that scene? That\u2019s not hacking.\u201d So we wanted to say, we\u2019re trying to make a very silly fun movie here and we\u2019re, in some sense, making fun of our own pop culture. There\u2019s a lot of movie references and things, but they\u2019re in there to say this is our shared history, this is our shared touchstones and we\u2019re trying to comment upon that. So what\u2019s the dumbest way George can crack a code? Well, it\u2019s Swordfish<\/em>, and there\u2019s even a very small nod in the background with a couple of shots where there\u2019s a giant swordfish on the wall to try to let people know what I\u2019m doing.
\nThat\u2019s so good. I also love that afterwards they have the little conversation where they talk about, \u201cWas it too self-indulgent?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, because it was. That\u2019s just me talking to myself like, yeah, the whole thing is self-indulgent and that\u2019s the point, America\u2019s self-indulgent.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another great bit where Abe Lincoln talks about a big budget dream sequence for George Washington that was too expensive, so they had to tone it down. Is that something that really got axed or is that just a fun joke?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yep. It\u2019s actually there. In fact, the picture that Lincoln holds up in that scene was a board from the scene as it was. That scene was 100% happening, but it was going to be expensive and we\u2019re on a little bit of a smaller budget here than you would find in your regular big star cartoon movie. They couldn\u2019t afford it. So that was me saying, \u201cNah, can\u2019t afford it. Let\u2019s make a nod to it.\u201d That scene was 1000% boarded and happening.<\/p>\n

Are there any others favorite gags that you have that didn\u2019t make it in the movie scenes that just got cut for one reason or another?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite thing that got cut in the movie, and it was in the movie for so long, and I wanted it to stay. There\u2019s a nod to it in the credits, about one minute into the credits there\u2019s a small coda scene. You meet some characters that you haven\u2019t met on screen before, but yet we\u2019ve talked about them throughout the movie. At one point, they were throughout the scene and because it just got too insane, too crazy we had to let that go. So that is me lamenting the fact that I had to finally let that through-line joke go, but I put it back in there at the end. It\u2019s just a five-second coda and if people see the movie they, and they see that coda scene, they can pretty much figure out what was happening there.<\/p>\n

One of the other specific things that I wanted to ask about, because this happens in a lot of Lord and Miller animated projects, and I was wondering how this kind of gag comes about. There\u2019s these little moments that are just added throw away lines of dialogue from minor characters. One of my favorite bits like that in this movie cracked me up so hard. I\u2019ve watched the movie twice now, and I lose it when Sam Adams asked George Washington what America is, and he\u2019s so confused about it. One of his frat bros gets much more adamant about the question and just yells with so much intensity, \u201cFUCKIN\u2019 TELL US!\u201d I want to know how little bits like that come about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That specific bit is a callback from my own past. I used to make a show for Adult Swim called Frisky Dingo<\/em>. There were characters in there called the Xtacles, who were these bros in big max suits that used to fight people. So we considered the fraternity brothers our version of the Xtacles from Frisky Dingo<\/em>. All they are is loud beer-drinking dudes with bad ideas, and they just scream shit. So that is my staff here yelling us stuff, that\u2019s\u00a0Neal Holman, the longtime director of Archer<\/em> whose now on some other projects for me. It\u2019s the Xtacles, just guys with too much power, too much beer, and too much loudness.<\/p>\n

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